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"What is it that makes a <i>Beast</i> be a Creature of less Liberty than <i>Man</i>, but only that its natural Appetites more necessarily govern all its Actions, and that it is not indued with a Faculty of Reason, whereby to exert itself, and gain a Power or Liberty of over-ruling those Appetites?"Work: Of the Liberty of Moral Agents [from Sermons]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/18812
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/18812"For, what does the Ambitious Prince or the Licentious Multitude; what does the Covetous, and Revengeful, or the Debauched Sinner; but only chuse to be a Servant to Passion, instead of a Follower of Right Reason?"Work: Of the Liberty of Moral Agents [from Sermons]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/18811
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/18811"Most men seem to place it in being allowed to let loose the Reins to all their Appetites and Passions without controul; to be under no restraint either from the Laws of Men, or from the Fear of God."Work: Of the Liberty of Moral Agents [from Sermons]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/18810
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/18810"If a man's Body be under confinement, or he be impotent in his Limbs, he is then deprived of his <i>bodily</i> Liberty: And for the same Reason, if his <i>Mind </i>be blinded by sottish Errors, and his Reason over-ruled by violent Passions; is not This likewise plainly as great a Slavery and as ...Work: Of the Liberty of Moral Agents [from Sermons]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/8683
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